When Steven Thrasher started reporting on Michael Johnson, the Lindenwood University student known to some as “Tiger Mandingo” who had been charged with (and later convicted of) “recklessly infecting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mike Davis, formerly chief counsel for nominations under Senator Chuck Grassley, has posted several tweets since August of 2023 ...

You’re reading Infinite Scroll, Kyle Chayka’s weekly column on how technology shapes culture. The “lumpenproletariat,” according to “The Communist Manifesto,” is “the social scum, that passively ...

Taxi Driver was one of a number of movies in the 1970s that presented a menacing underclass, unemployed and threatening social stability. (Fifty years ago, America launched a great experiment, ...

“White underclass” is a term I’ve used often in my writing, and most American readers seem to know what I mean. They’ve got eyes and live in the same nation I do. But in a sudden burst of journalistic ...

AI is rapidly building wealth in San Francisco. Some techies think that a "permanent underclass" is coming, while others call ...

Politicians are wrong to talk about a permanent "underclass" in society, according to a report by a left-wing think tank. Much poverty is thankfully temporary but there are some people who are ...

Watching the courage of ordinary low-income people as they deal with the aftermath of Katrina and Rita, it is hard to decide which politicians are more contemptible–Democrats who are rediscovering ...

When George Floyd died in May 2020, the cause was murder. A white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes while the 46-year-old Black man gasped for breath. But ...

The saying 'data is the new oil' has already become a banality. But as corporations capitalize on the value contained in our personal information, the benefits of digital innovation remain unevenly ...